Chronicles

Opening Reception
Friday, October 18th, 2024
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through NOVEMBER 29, 2024

CHRONICLES
We are excited to announce our eighth exhibition of 2024 :: CHRONICLES a group exhibition featuring new art from Elliston Roshi, Daisy Anne Dickson, Christine Lyon, Derrick Beasley, Tim Flowers, Matthew Sugarman, Elisa Dore, Sierra Kazin, Laura Cleary Williams, Ella Hopkins, Teej (Nicholas) Jones, Golnoush Behmaesh, Allen Peterson, Lucas Wiman, Sharon Shapiro, Darya Fard, Azin Yousefiani, and Katya Kim.

exhibiting through november 29, 2024
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LUSTROUS

Opening Reception
Friday, September 6th, 2024
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through October 11, 2024

LUSTROUS
We are excited to announce our seventh exhibition of 2024 :: LUSTROUS a group exhibition featuring new art from Jeremy Brown, Greg Noblin, Patrick Heagney and introducing Pope Ariza and Jon John.

exhibiting through October 11, 2024
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PRofessor & Printmaking pop up

Opening Reception
Friday, August 23, 2024
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through AUGUST 30!

We are excited to announce our sixth exhibition of 2024 :: Professor Printmaking Pop Up a group exhibition featuring Marc Boyson, Stephanie Kolpy, Heather Deyling, Luke Hamilton, Alice Stone Collins, Lara Wolf, Donald Keefe, Matthew Sugarman, Carl Linstrum, Adewale Adenle, Allen Peterson, Christine Lyon, Cynthia Lollis, Stephanie Smith, Hannah Adair and Brian Baker.

exhibiting through August 16, 2024
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ORIGINS

Opening Reception
Friday, JULY 19, 2024
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through AUGUST 16, 2024

ORIGINS
We are excited to announce our fifth exhibition of 2024 :: ORIGINS a group exhibition featuring Cameron Bliss, Stan Clark, Trey Dowell, Kevin Palme, Alice Stone Collins and introducing Ayana Ross.

exhibiting through August 16, 2024
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Narratives

Opening Reception
Friday, May 31, 2024
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through JULY 12th, 2024

NARRATIVES

We are excited to announce our fourth exhibition of 2024 :: NARRATIVES, a group exhibition featuring Steven L. Anderson, Todd Anderson, Kiara Gilbert, Landon Perkins and Kaya Faery.

exhibiting through July 12, 2024
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DEFINE

Opening Reception
Friday, April 19th, 2024
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through may 24th, 2024

DEFINE : a group exhibition

We are excited to announce our third exhibition of 2024 :: DEFINE a group exhibition featuring Joe Camoosa, Coki Panda, Rod Ben, Sanithna, Sean Sweeney, Chris Veal, Jonny Warren, Fabian Williams, Killamari and Adam Wellborn.

exhibiting through May 24, 2024
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Ekphrasis

Opening Reception
Friday, April 19th, 2024
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through may 24th, 2024

Ekphrasis
Curatorial Statement
Honor Bowman Hall | Kai Lin Art
Featuring artists Ben Tollefson, Michael O'Brien, Zoltan Gerliczki, Dove McHargue, Gregory Eltringham, Holly Matthews, and Matt Robertson

In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

-Musee des Beux Arts, W.H. Auden

Ekphrasis (Greek) translates to “description” in English. However, the word is most used to describe the detailed description of a work of art through written language as a literary device. The excerpt from Auden’s poem above serves as an example. 

I have named this exhibition Ekphrasis because the word captures the way the artists here have approached their subjects and it captures the perceptual experience of viewing an artwork and translating the visual into information. Both processes are descriptive. 

While the artwork I make in my practice as a painter is not figurative, I first came to love art through my fascination with masterful pictorial description of the human form. When I worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in my early 20s, I used to go sit in the American Wing in front of John Singer Sargent’s Madame X. At times, I felt that I could see her breathing. I could imagine her trying to stand still, holding her posture straight. Maybe the room was cold—her ears and the tip of her nose are very slightly flushed. While perhaps less elegant, Duane Hanson’s 1977 sculpture Woman with Dog is another favorite for the same reason—the scene expands in the viewer’s mind. The woman and dog are familiar characters and our mind’s eye fills in the blanks, asking questions and imagining the unpictured characters, the day’s events, and the scene beyond the little rug. Here, the artwork is a window onto a more expansive story. The figures are uncanny, banal, and completely compelling simultaneously as we look on, and as Elkin’s writes, the object stares back.

The paintings and photographs in this exhibition are contemporary examples of descriptive, figure-based work by artists living right here in Georgia in 2024. Masterful, contemporary, and connected by a commitment to capturing/describing their subject: the figure, identity, the human condition and story. Like Madame X and Woman with Dog, these pictures are also descriptive of their time and tell a story about how art can illuminate the boundaries of social conversations about taste, convention, and society. 

One of my favorite examples of ekphrasis comes from Chapter 19 of Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Villette. The narrator, Lucy, visits a Belgian museum and offers her thoughts on a large-scale painting entitled Cleopatra. While Lucy has a cynical take on the artwork’s model (too fat) and comments on the immodesty of the sitter’s dress as a stunt for spectacle’s sake, the epic scale of the artwork and the title make an impression on her. She calls it “the queen of the collection.” Isn’t it funny how we size up and appraise representations of the human figure the same way we size up and appraise a real person? The urge to consider, judge and connect is automatic.

Bronte’s ekphrasis through Lucy’s eyes of the height, weight, and presence of the figure is captivating. The scene begins with Lucy offering these thoughts on her visit to the museum and her experience of the artworks, “…there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision…An expression in this portrait proved clear insight into the character; a face in that historical painting, by its vivid filial likeness, startingly reminded you that genius gave it birth.” 

Like Auden’s poem, this passage hits on the miraculous power that visual storytelling holds. We look past the surface of a figurative artwork into the eyes of the subject, and search for a reflection of our own experience there (colored by our biases, desires, assumptions, and position in the world). At times tongue in cheek and edgy, at times poetic, but always fictional, the collection of images curated into this show is a celebration of visual storytelling about the human experience in art objects, and the expressive, descriptive power of artistry in paint and light.

Honor Bowman Hall | Biography

Honor Bowman Hall (b. 1984) is an artist and educator living and working in Savannah, GA.

Hall is from Roanoke, Virginia and holds a BA in Studio Art and English from the University of Mary Washington (class of 2006). After moving to New York in 2007, where she worked in the music industry and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hall relocated to Savannah and received her MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Following her graduate studies, she lived in Anchorage, Alaska from 2013-2017 and was the manager of the International Gallery of Contemporary Art (IGCA), the only not-for-profit exhibition space in Anchorage solely dedicated to contemporary art.

In addition to her work promoting and programming experimental art and facilitating exhibitions and events at IGCA, Hall also created two large murals in Alaska, including one at the Anchorage Museum, and taught Painting and Design courses at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Now based in Savannah for a second time, Hall is the Dean of the School of Fine Arts and the School of Visual Communication at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).

Hall graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with an MFA in Painting in 2014. During her MFA candidacy, she was selected for a solo studio fellowship at the Elizabeth Foundation in New York, NY in conjunction with the SCAD Painting Department, and was selected to hold her thesis exhibition in conjunction with SCAD’s annual de:FINE Art event. Since her return to SCAD in 2017 as a member of the faculty, Hall continues to exhibit her work at SCAD. She has produced two murals for the university’s Savannah campus, and her artwork is featured on SCAD busses in Savannah and Atlanta.  

Hall has held artist-in-residence positions in Savannah, Georgia, Richmond, Virginia and New York, New York and has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. Her paintings appear in several public and private collections. 

Hall is a member of the Friendship Magic Collective, an ongoing two-person art and music project for which she paints and plays cello. FMC’s most recent exhibition, Homecoming, was reviewed for Art Pulse Magazine #33. 

exhibiting through APRIl 11, 2024
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WOVEN

Opening Reception
Friday, MARCH 8, 2024
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through APRIL 11, 2024

WOVEN :: A GROUP EXHIBITION FEATURING
SANDY TEEPEN, MARC BOYSON, PHILIP CARPENTER, CHLOE ALEXANDER, LAUREN LESLEY

Philip Carpenter
Making color pencil drawings replaced painting for me, but the processes are similar in that each drawing requires its own painterly invention to describe surfaces and to create effective illusions. My interests sometimes wander, lured by the pleasures of irony, but I always return to making portraits of ordinary things, mostly utilitarian objects that seem to find me. Some are even the vestiges of my former work as a painter. I meticulously record the beauty of their wear as my way of honoring their often unknowable histories. The drawings combine my knack for realism with my minimalist sensibilities.

Marc Boyson
My practice is grounded in the trace that references the invisible line of autobiographical data. The line reveals my daily movement, however small, over a surface, between buildings, work, errands, day trips, or longer journeys. These everyday movements become a journal of intuition, memory, and GPS records. The simple act of leaving a marc.

Chloe Alexander
My printmaking practice is a delicate balance between precision and spontaneity, allowing me to create images that are both deliberate and intuitive. The repetitive nature of the print process introduces an element of rhythm and ritual, turning each print into a reflection of patience and dedication. Nostalgia, a universal emotion, is a cornerstone of my artistic exploration. The interplay of colors, textures, and figuration creates a visual language that serves to transcend the ephemeral nature of spoken words, inviting the viewer to navigate the landscape of their memories that I aspire to recall to the conscious mind. Just as printmaking has long been used to disseminate messages, I hope that a broad audience can access the universality of the motifs that I employ. Once immersed in these visual narratives, they may add to, alter, or reimagine the intent of the work based on their assumptions or lived experiences- an acknowledgment of the familiarity and fleeting recollections that resonate within us all.

Lauren Lesley
Lauren Lesley's body of work contains graphite and charcoal drawings which reflect on specific time periods throughout her life. Each one represents subjects that she has a strong emotional connection to but is physically disconnected from; pets, poignant childhood mementos, and details of events and life moments that weave together concepts of meaning, memory, identity, and the passing of time. The act of unearthing, reconstructing, and highlighting these recollections decreases the emotional distance between the artist and the subjects by allowing her to revisit and meticulously revive them with each stroke of a pencil.

Sandy Teepen
There is a thread that runs through Sandy’s life. In fact, there are lots of threads running through it. A fabric artist, Sandy has worked in a wide variety of fabric forms – weaving, costuming, and her current emphasis, quilted collage. Her collages combine traditional forms and imagery with contemporary color sensibilities and design. Her work has been shown in numerous quilt and art exhibitions including the Georgia National Fair and the widely acclaimed Quilts in the Garden event in Livermore, CA.

exhibiting through APRIl 11, 2024
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THE NEW SOUTH V

OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY, JANUARY 19TH, 2024
7:00 - 10:00 PM
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
EXHIBITION RUNS THROUGH MARCH 1,2024

We are pleased to invite you to our first exhibition of 2024, our annual works on paper exhibition THE NEW SOUTH V.

This exhibition features 56 artists creating works from across the Southeast. There were over 800 submissions of which 80 works were selected by our esteemed jurors William Downs and Wesley Terpstra.

TNS V ARTISTS:
MARY HARTMAN, JOHNNY DRACO, CHR!S REEL, ELISE LYON, LEEANN RAE, SERENA PERRONE, TARO TAKIZAWA, CHRISTINE BAUM, SHARON SHAPIRO, TARA SEGARS, KATIE HARGRAVE, ALLISON JOHNSON, FIORELLA ESCALON, LANNY BREWSTER, HEATHER SZATMARY, GABRIELLE MORSE, SHANA BOWES, ANNA DEAN, SYDNEY HENDRIX, NANCY BLUM, EVAN HELGESON, ELLA HOPKINS, GOLNOUSH BEHMANESH, ANA GARDINER, CHRISTOPHER DENNIS, ELISA DORE, LYDIA CAMPBELL, ERIK WATERKOTTE, ASIA HANON, SIERRA KAZIN, MATTHEW SUGARMAN, ALLEN PETERSON, LUCAS WIMAN, BRANDON WILLIAMS, SCOTT LOWDEN, TIKVA LANTIGUA, SEAN SWEENEY, AMBER MCCANTS, TRUETT DIETZ, JESSICA SWANK, THOMAS FLYNN II, NICHOLAS JONES, KATI LOWE, MEGAN REEVES WILLIAMSON, ROBB LEJUWAAN, MANTY DEY, KALEIGH FITZGERALD, LAUREN LESLEY, RACHEL EVANS GRANT, ALEX MIKEV, SARAH KEYS, DERRICK BEASLEY, NOAH BEICH, FLIZZIE THOMPSON, LAURA CLEARY WILLIAMS & AXELLE KIEFFER

New South V: The Gestalt Result
by Wesley Terpstra

Have you ever been to a party where you spent the evening speaking with a lot of different people? You were carried along by a shared stream of consciousness, responding to memories, impressions, chance encounters, verbal processing of recent events, and offering empathy, comradery, or commiseration. By the end of the evening, you’ve been all over, mentally, you’re left with an overall impression of the experience. The variety of conversations are simultaneously mixing and contrasting in your head. You have a sense of the “conversation” of the evening. I’ll refer to this, for the sake of writing, as “The Gestalt Result”.

This is what I was left with after viewing all the entries. Each of the submissions had a distinct thing to say. Some spoke quite clearly and pointedly to one another. Others offered surprising contrast or contradictions that enlivened the conversation.

I was left with the impression of drifting through a party, catching bits of conversations as I went, stepping back, and letting the common themes of the conversations meld together to an overall impression, and then, after reflection, going back to revisit the conversation and add detail to some of the impressions.

The “conversation” is the theme that I am always looking for in collections of work, be it by an individual or a group. What is the “conversation” between the works? How do I see similarity or difference with concept, compositions, value, texture, use of color, shape, etc.? This is what produces the impression that is beyond a specific work. The conversation that grows beyond listening to one person dominate the party. This is “The Gestalt Result” and, for me, it makes viewing more exciting and fulfilling. I’m left with the same impression as when I’ve left a party filled with different conversations.

The impressions that people would gain from going to the same party will be as different as the people themselves. The content of the conversations is filtered through our own preferences, hindrances, and chance. The impression is formed with the influence of our history, mood, expectations, etc. My hope is that the individuals experiencing The New South V will leave with their own “Gestalt Result” that will have some highlights (stand-out conversations) and will remain as a stream of thought for them long after they have returned home.

EXHIBITING THROUGH MARCH 1, 2024
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ALLURE

Opening Reception
Friday, November 3rd, 2023
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through december 29, 2023

ALLURE :: A GROUP EXHIBITION FEATURING
LELA BRUNET, CAMERON BLISS, PATRICK HEAGNEY, KRISTA GRECCO, SPENCER HERR

We are pleased to announce our seventh exhibition for 2023 : ALLURE featuring Lela Brunet, Cameron Bliss, Patrick Heagney, Krista Grecco, and Spencer Herr. 

LELA BRUNET

For many years Artist Lela Brunet has exclusively worked on large-scale murals and street art throughout Atlanta and the Southeast. This new series of Fine Art will be her first time back in the studio in five years. This was both exciting and frightening for the artist to flex this long dormant muscle. Creating work in the privacy of her own studio (with no outside input) gave her an opportunity to relearn to be okay with mistakes, exploration, and discovery in her art making. This new series her slowly stepping out of her comfort zone and becoming more confident and bolder in her choices. In this new series she found her joy in making art again by pulling from her past style and from her years creating murals. Decorative floral motifs, heavy usage of metallic leaf, street art tagging patterns, retro color palettes, and elegant graphite female figures are just a few of the elements throughout this new collection of work.

SPENCER HERR

Employing nostalgia sourced from children's books, advertisements and American art history these paintings hint at the separation we often feel. From the past, future, each other, and the land. However, at least here, separation is an illusion. At the same time and almost paradoxically they are imbued with joy and hope as they play into the unknown, relying on each other to imagine and construct a better future no matter what comes. 

CAMERON BLISS

From simplistic backgrounds to complex interiors rich with plant life, patterns and symbolism, my autobiographical paintings are formed from fragments of past memories, dreams and experiences. As one views the figures in my paintings, one might feel as though they suddenly interrupted an intimate exchange suspended in time. I try to paint authentic souls existing in their mundane realness. My art has always been a way for me to make sense of the world around me in the same way that dreams help us uncover what is hidden beneath the obvious surface, and to delve deeper into understanding our own personal truths.

PATRICK HEAGNEY : 'Time Away'

One of the ironies of the greater social connectivity of the 21st century is that it often comes at the cost of being connected to ourselves and the present moment. It is easier than ever to be detached, lost in anxieties about the future or ruminations on the past.  We focus on things that aren’t happening right now, right here. In this state, consciousness, identity, memory, and perception are disconnected. 

These moments-that-are-not-moments build upon one another. Over time, they shape an entire life that is fragmented—disconnected.

This body of work is a romanticized visual representation of dissociation: zoning out, mental escape, not being present.

There are three physical layers to each work. The back layer represents the original experience itself; it is the only solid layer. The other layers are largely transparent, allowing a glimpse at the experience but obscuring it at the same time.

The middle layer depicts the person in that moment, separated by physical space from the original experience, representing their detachment from the present. They are close to it but they can’t touch it—in a way, they were never really there in the first place. It contains a relatively straightforward depiction of our subject.

The third layer, the layer the viewer must view the other components through, represents the haze and imperfections of memory, looking back on a moment they never fully experienced, separated by physical and emotional space both from who they were at the time, during the original experience. This layer is the only layer the viewer—observing the scene after the fact—can touch.

KRISTA GRECCO

I am drawn to objects that have a history and a story to tell. At home and in the studio, I surround myself with bits of nature, curiosities, and nostalgic trinkets. Dried mushrooms, gnawed bones, old toys, and tattered stuffed animals line the shelves and feed my imagination. I treasure these objects for their narrative and formal appeal. They are beautifully weathered, abstracted, and colorful. Surfaces and details may have faded over time, but the emotions tied to these objects are palpable.

Much like the objects I collect and treasure, my figurative and animal sculptures tell a story. They are fully realized characters; flawed but strong, sad but hopeful, playing the part of the reluctant protagonist in their own unfinished stories. Gesture, form, proportion, and color are pushed, stretched, and simplified to enhance the narrative and highlight emotion.

exhibiting through December 29, 2023
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AURA

Opening Reception
Friday, SEPT 8, 2023
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through OCTOBER 13, 2023

AURA :: A NEW EXHIBITION FEATURING 21 FEMALE + NON-BINARY ARTISTS
+ HONOR BOWMAN HALL’S OCEAN HIGHWAY

We are excited to share with you our sixth exhibition for 2023 : AURA, a group show featuring 21 female and non-binary artists from across the Southeast. The artists in AURA are:

Hannah Adair, Chloe Alexander, Mallory Brooks, Alice Stone Collins, In Kyong Chun, Heather Deyling, Jessica Durrant, Kiara Gilbert, Krista Grecco, Honor Hall, Lisa Hart, Angie Jerez, Kaya Shoots (Adrianna Clark), Stephanie Kolpy, Christina Kwan, Jessica Locklar, Tracy Murrell, Coki Panda, Valentina Custer O’Roark, Stacie Rose, Sophia Sabsowitz, Stephanie Smith, Sandy Teepen

OCEAN HIGHWAY :: Named for a segment of Route 17 as it passes through Savannah, Georgia, Ocean Highway is an homage to American two-lane highways and the nostalgic family road trip.

In coastal Georgia, the road between destination cities and towns is lined with moss-covered oaks, palm trees, marshland and at times, an ocean view dotted with atomic age signs for restaurants, motor inns, and the occasional surf shop.

Painter Honor Bowman Hall has long been inspired by the back roads. In 2009 she completed a five week cross-country loop from New York, New York to Seattle, down the Pacific Coast Highway to Los Angeles, and back to the East Coast on two-lane highways, including famed Route 66. This became the subject of an ongoing painting project to capture the spaces in between destinations.

Hotel pools, tiki bars, garages, convenience stores, and signs for family restaurants dot the landscape and populate this exhibition of life on the way from reality to vacation. The pictures evoke a world of summertime trips with stopovers in sleepy towns along the Ocean Highway.

Honor Bowman Hall (b. 1984) is an artist and educator living and working in Savannah, GA. Hall is from Roanoke, Virginia and holds a BA in Studio Art and English from the University of Mary Washington (class of 2006). After moving to New York in 2007, where she worked in the music industry and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hall relocated to Savannah and received her MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Following her graduate studies, she lived in Anchorage, Alaska from 2013-2017 and was the manager of the International Gallery of Contemporary Art (IGCA), the only not-for-profit exhibition space in Anchorage solely dedicated to contemporary art.

In addition to her work promoting and programming experimental art and facilitating exhibitions and events at IGCA, Hall also created two large murals in Alaska, including one at the Anchorage Museum, and taught Painting and Design courses at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Now based in Savannah for a second time, Hall is the Dean of the School of Fine Arts, Dean of the School of Visual Communication, and Chair of Fine Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).

Hall graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with an MFA in Painting in 2014. During her MFA candidacy, she was selected for a solo studio fellowship at the Elizabeth Foundation in New York, NY in conjunction with the SCAD Painting Department, and was selected to hold her thesis exhibition in conjunction with SCAD’s annual de:FINE Art event. Since her return to SCAD in 2017 as a member of the faculty, Hall continues to exhibit her work at SCAD. She has produced two murals for the university’s Savannah campus, and her artwork is featured on SCAD busses in Savannah and Atlanta. 

Hall has held artist-in-residence positions in Savannah, Georgia, Richmond, Virginia and New York, New York and has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. Her paintings appear in several public and private collections. She is represented in New York by Contempop Gallery, in Atlanta by Kai Lin Art and online by SCAD Art Sales.

Hall is a member of the Friendship Magic Collective, an ongoing two-person art and music project for which she paints and plays cello. FMC’s most recent exhibition, Homecoming, was reviewed for Art Pulse Magazine #33.

exhibiting through OCTOBER 13, 2023
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT 404 408 4248 OR INFO@KAILINART.COM

Atl print biennial & OCean highway

Opening Reception
Friday, July 14, 2023
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through August 25, 2023

ATLANTA PRINTMAKERS STUDIO 6TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL
+ HONOR BOWMAN HALL’S OCEAN HIGHWAY

We are pleased to announce our fifth exhibition for 2023 : The Atlanta Print Biennial + Ocean Highway.

APS BIENNIAL :: The Atlanta Print Biennial is an international juried exhibition, open to all artists working in hand-pulled printmaking processes. The exhibit is organized by Atlanta Printmakers Studio and hosted by Kai Lin Art, a contemporary art gallery located in the vibrant Westside District of Midtown Atlanta, GA.

OCEAN HIGHWAY :: Named for a segment of Route 17 as it passes through Savannah, Georgia, Ocean Highway is an homage to American two-lane highways and the nostalgic family road trip.

In coastal Georgia, the road between destination cities and towns is lined with moss-covered oaks, palm trees, marshland and at times, an ocean view dotted with atomic age signs for restaurants, motor inns, and the occasional surf shop.

Painter Honor Bowman Hall has long been inspired by the back roads. In 2009 she completed a five week cross-country loop from New York, New York to Seattle, down the Pacific Coast Highway to Los Angeles, and back to the East Coast on two-lane highways, including famed Route 66. This became the subject of an ongoing painting project to capture the spaces in between destinations.

Hotel pools, tiki bars, garages, convenience stores, and signs for family restaurants dot the landscape and populate this exhibition of life on the way from reality to vacation. The pictures evoke a world of summertime trips with stopovers in sleepy towns along the Ocean Highway.

This year’s juror is Miranda K. Metcalf. Metcalf holds a B.A. from the University of Washington in Philosophy and an M.A. from the University of Arizona in Art History, focusing on printmaking. After graduating, she became the Director of Contemporary Printmaking at Davidson Galleries in Seattle, Washington. In 2017 she moved to Sydney, Australia, where she worked with the world-renowned Cicada Press at the University of New South Wales. After two years Down Under, she relocated to Bangkok, Thailand, to take a director position at S.A.C. Gallery. She returned to the United States in 2021 and is a freelance writer, podcaster, and director of the month-long printmaking festival Print Santa Fe. Her podcast Hello, Print Friend is the longest-running print-centric podcast, with over 200 episodes featuring artists from thirty countries. When not working, she is gazing adoringly at her two Thai street dogs, which now live with her in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Atlanta Printmakers Studio (APS) was established to support the fine art of printmaking in metro Atlanta. Founders envisioned an organization that would provide a well-equipped printmaking studio for local artists as well as raise the awareness of printmaking as an art form. In August 2005 the incorporation papers were signed and in December 2006 APS’s 501c3 non-profit status was approved – Atlanta Printmakers Studio was founded.

Local art centers, universities, and galleries made available their facilities and galleries for workshops and exhibits as APS built membership and formed the organization. During the first year APS received many generous equipment donations. However, we needed of a permanent home. After many months of looking at potential studio space APS moved into the Metropolitan Warehouse complex. The doors opened in November 2006 near downtown Atlanta, and classes began in January 2007. Over the years APS has become a vital printmaking resource for artists, collectors, college students and children.

Honor Bowman Hall (b. 1984) is an artist and educator living and working in Savannah, GA. Hall is from Roanoke, Virginia and holds a BA in Studio Art and English from the University of Mary Washington (class of 2006). After moving to New York in 2007, where she worked in the music industry and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hall relocated to Savannah and received her MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Following her graduate studies, she lived in Anchorage, Alaska from 2013-2017 and was the manager of the International Gallery of Contemporary Art (IGCA), the only not-for-profit exhibition space in Anchorage solely dedicated to contemporary art.

In addition to her work promoting and programming experimental art and facilitating exhibitions and events at IGCA, Hall also created two large murals in Alaska, including one at the Anchorage Museum, and taught Painting and Design courses at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

Now based in Savannah for a second time, Hall is the Dean of the School of Fine Arts, Dean of the School of Visual Communication, and Chair of Fine Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).

Hall graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with an MFA in Painting in 2014. During her MFA candidacy, she was selected for a solo studio fellowship at the Elizabeth Foundation in New York, NY in conjunction with the SCAD Painting Department, and was selected to hold her thesis exhibition in conjunction with SCAD’s annual de:FINE Art event. Since her return to SCAD in 2017 as a member of the faculty, Hall continues to exhibit her work at SCAD. She has produced two murals for the university’s Savannah campus, and her artwork is featured on SCAD busses in Savannah and Atlanta. 

Hall has held artist-in-residence positions in Savannah, Georgia, Richmond, Virginia and New York, New York and has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad. Her paintings appear in several public and private collections. She is represented in New York by Contempop Gallery, in Atlanta by Kai Lin Art and online by SCAD Art Sales.

Hall is a member of the Friendship Magic Collective, an ongoing two-person art and music project for which she paints and plays cello. FMC’s most recent exhibition, Homecoming, was reviewed for Art Pulse Magazine #33.

exhibiting through August 25, 2023
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT 404 408 4248 OR INFO@KAILINART.COM

TRANQUILITY

Opening Reception
Friday, June 2, 2023
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through July 7, 2023

TRANQUILITY : ELLISTON ROSHI, JONNY WARREN, WESLEY TERPSTRA

We are pleased to announce our fourth exhibition for 2023 : TRANQUILITY, a three artist group exhibition featuring new works from resident artist Elliston Roshi, mixed media muralist Jonny Warren, and painter/professor Wesley Terpstra. These three artists represent a diverse range o3f Asian inspired aesthetics in our contemporary world.

Elliston Roshi works with watercolor and Sumi ink on multiple layers of glass, gesso panel and mirrored glass. These fluid abstract works are a natural interaction between the four fundamental forces of earth, wind, fire, and water. Geometry and flow play an integral part in these dynamic pieces as Elliston explores dimensionality on each plane of the frame as a “play within a play”. As a steward of Zen Buddhism, (Sensei) Elliston founded the Atlanta Soto Zen Center (ASZC) in 1977 and has written two books: The Original Frontier: A Serious Seeker's Guide to Zen and The Razorblade of Zen.

In this latest body of work by Atlanta based muralist Jonny Warren, concepts of second-hand nostalgia, longing and comfort are reflected and ruminated upon. Drawing from his mother’s childhood experiences in The Philippines, Warren explores identity as a multi-racial Black & Philipino-American. Combining tropical and muted colors, this body of work for Tranquility aims to capture the essence of the Philippines in its landscapes, native plants, and birds. Warren was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and is a working artist based in Atlanta, GA.

The third and final artist in our exhibition is painter and SCAD professor of art, Wesley Terpstra. In this series entitled Yau Ma Tei (district), Terpstra explore found paper and aged worn paper from his time in Hong Kong. Paper as a metaphor for human interaction and how through space and time, paper begins to gather new meanings. These beautifully rendered paintings in oil on canvas (large) and gouache on panel (small) are a visual documentation, a journal of wall posters and billboards aged and torn over time until they become fragmented pieces of artful glimpses.

exhibiting through may 27, 2023
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whimsy & Wander

Opening Reception
Friday, APRIL 28, 2023
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through MAY 27, 2023

WHIMSY & WANDER : MARC BOYSON, PHILIP CARPENTER, AND TREYVIAN DOWELL

We are pleased to announce our third exhibition for 2023 : Whimsy & Wander, a three artist group exhibition featuring fresh works from resident artist Marc Boyson, color pencil artist Philip Carpenter, and introducing multi-disciplinary artist Treyvian (Trey) Dowell. These three artists represent three generations of art educators in our contemporary art world. 

Marc Boyson is an Associate Professor of Fine Art at the School of Visual Art & Design, Southern Adventist University in Tennessee. Boyson’s work reveals the cartographic trace through his commutes using memory, invention, and GPS records. Through works on paper, projection, murals, sound and ceramics, he reveals his everyday movement through space.

Philip Carpenter has taught painting classes at the Chastain Arts Center in Atlanta, GA since 1980. For these drawings, Carpenter is expanding his appreciation for portraying the ordinary. Rummaging through thrift store refuses, he finds used dolls and action figures as studies for his portraitures. This collection of nine drawings are a hyper realistic study of simple toys through colored pencils.

Treyvian (Trey) Dowell, a recent graduate of Georgia State University with a BFA in drawing, painting and printmaking is the Art Teacher for The Howard School in Atlanta, GA. Heavily rooted in abstraction and infused with vibrancy of color, Dowell creates each piece as a living sketchbook to capture the unencumbered nature of childhood and simplicity of wonderment. 

exhibiting through may 27, 2023
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HOW TO KNOW THE FERNS

Opening Reception
Friday, March 17, 2023
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through may 20, 2023

HOW TO KNOW THE FERNS : A SOLO EXHIBITION FEATURING STEVEN L. ANDERSON

Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce our second exhibition for 2023, HOW TO KNOW THE FERNS : a solo exhibition featuring new artworks from Atlanta-based artist Steven L. Anderson.

Steven L. Anderson

How to Know the Ferns {Artist Statement}

“How to Know the Ferns is a new body of paintings and drawings from Atlanta artist Steven L. Anderson.

Anderson’s ongoing look at the power of Nature and the nature of power focuses here through the lens of historical research. Art and science meet in two books, “Ferns of Georgia” (Rogers McVaugh & Joseph H. Pyron, 1951), and “How to Know the Ferns” (Frances Theodora Parsons, 1927 ed.). These wonderful collections of botanical line drawings present a close observation of the leafy plants, while imagining them as either soft, lilting, fainting, dainty beings; or as flattened, deterministic vessels of scientific study. Both adhere to Western culture’s tendency to reduce knowledge into categories, and to drain experience of its color.

Anderson aims to return a spirit of energy, wonder, and power to these pages. Experiments with bright inks, acrylics, and oils emphasize the true strangeness of these plant forms. Generative, fractal mark-making threatens to plunge the artist into exponential iterations of labor. Retinal vibrations bring the viewer into the madness. Poured auras imbue a glimpse of nature’s magic. The ferns begin to gain their own agency as mesmerizing, wise, forest weirdies.”

Steven L. Anderson is an exhibiting artist, and Co-Director of Day & Night Projects, an artist-run gallery in Atlanta that he helped originate in 2016.

Anderson is a graduate of the University of Michigan and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States since 1996. His artworks are found in the Microsoft Art Collection, the Tim & Lauren Schrager Collection, and in collections of Fulton County Public Arts, Coca-Cola Inc., Emory University Hospitals, the National Park Service, and others. Anderson’s sketchbooks are in the permanent collection of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. 

Anderson is a two-time winner of the Artists Project Grant from the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. He was an Artist-in-Residence at Yes We Cannibal in Baton Rouge, LA in March 2022, and at Atlanta’s Blue Heron Nature Preserve for the year of 2021. He was a recipient of the 2019 Denis Diderot [A-i-R] Grant at Château d’Orquevaux Artist Residency in Orquevaux, France. Anderson was a TAR Project Therapeutic Artist Resident in 2016–17, has been a Studio Artist at Atlanta Contemporary (2013–16), a 2015 Hambidge Center Distinguished Fellow, and a 2014–15 WonderRoot Walthall Artist Fellow. 

Anderson’s day job is Senior Graphic Designer and Studio Manager at the Office of Undergraduate Admission at Emory University. He lives in Atlanta with his wife Liz and son Finn.

exhibiting through May 20, 2023
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Paper boxes

Opening Reception
Friday, January 27, 2023
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through March 3, 2023

PAPER BOXES : A SOLO EXHIBITION FEATURING KEVIN PALME

Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce our first exhibition for 2023, PAPER BOXES : a solo exhibition featuring ten new artworks from Asheville-based artist Kevin Palme.

Kevin Palme earned a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Wake Forest University and a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Palme primarily works with oil paint on canvas.

“We are surrounded by impermanence. Fleeting moments, shifting perspectives, and change all illuminate the fact that nothing in life is permanent. Daily and seasonal transitions, birth, growth and death all remind us of the inevitability of impermanence. Even the most seemingly eternal landscapes will eventually succumb to time. We are left with memories. Abstract and residual, our memories are a means by which we can honor the past and recall experiences, relationships and parts of our histories. Oddly enough, painting feels permanent. It is a means of documentation that can be quick or slow, but one that seems durable and in some ways, timeless. An image left on a painted surface is the tangible result of working with a flexible and changing medium until the arrival of an end. It is a path that allows for a memory to be made into something more concrete than an idea.”

exhibiting through March 3, 2023
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R E V E R I E

Opening Reception
Friday, NOV 18th, 2022
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through DECEMBER

REVERIE : A SOLO EXHIBITION FEATURING PATRICK HEAGNEY

Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce REVERIE featuring all new works by Patrick Heagney:

“Chimera…you think you remember exactly what happened. You don’t. Your memories are retellings of a story. Like a message in a game of telephone, each time you repeat the story the more it gets distorted, changed from its original form into something new. Memories are colored by emotions--what you felt when the story began, what you feel when the memory is recalled. When you retell this story, to others or to yourself, you create a new story. Over time, the facts become more altered, less accurate.

After two people experience something together, their stories begin to diverge. Years later, two similar but subtly different recollections will emerge, the differences and overlaps between them obscuring the original events.

An elaborated form of photographic multiple exposure is used to create these images. A subject is photographed against a plain background. That original photo is then loaded onto a digital projector and projected back onto the subject, creating a live double exposure and dual depictions of the subject. While this is happening, the subjects are photographed with a long exposure. The long exposure introduces the element of time, and the subjects move around during this process. The resulting photo is the final portrait.

In this way, two different interpretations of the same people are recorded at once, along with the blurring element of time. By combining two different versions of the same subject, the viewer is given contradictory and overlapping renditions of the event. As a result, they are left only with an interpretation of the story, not an accurate representation of the moment.”

exhibiting through DECEMBER 2022
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CHIMERA

Opening Reception
Friday, OCTOBER 21, 2022
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through DECEMBER 2022

CHIMERA : A SOLO EXHIBITION FEATURING STAN CLARK

Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce CHIMERA, a genre-defying selection of new work by artist Stan Clark. In this latest exhibition, Stan takes viewers on a trip through tall-tales, both familiar and strange:

“I’ve always loved borrowing from mythological themes in my art, and this show is no different. Each picture represents a composite of multiple images, as I often splice drawings or fragments of work together to arrive at a finished work of art. This process inspired me to play with the theme of ‘chimerism,’ a reference to fantastical creatures made up of disparate parts from various animals. This idea of taking things that don’t typically belong together and finding ways to make them connect became not just a narrative element but also stylistic approach. In this show, you’ll see images that blur the lines between drawing and painting, between printmaking and collage, between digital vs. analog. You can expect to see pop elements and classical motifs combined in surprising ways, with the results being more magical than the sum of its parts.”

exhibiting through DECEMBER 2022
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SERENITY

Opening Reception
Friday, SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through OCTOBER 2022

Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce SERENITY : A SOLO EXHIBITION FEATURING GREG NOBLIN.

Vignettes and single scene narratives. Greg tells these stories as from a single page in a whimsical and magical story book. Greg holds the belief we all have shared common experiences, joy, sadness, elation, love, heartbreak, nostalgia, and desires to break free from the constraints of daily life. As such, he uses animals as a metaphor for these shared human experiences and presents enough of a story to allow the imagination to wonder, yet intently ambiguous for the viewer to impart their own meanings. Bending the boundaries of reality versus perception, Greg creates worlds of imagination and unlimited possibilities.

These ideas are not simply implied in the images themselves. Greg places an emphasis on the physical nature of the actual work. Life is imperfect and he intentionally places or allows these imperfections to be presented on the panel. Instead of a single printed image, for example, Greg chooses to print over several sheets and hand cut the print out, recreating a whole image from smaller pieces. This is symbolic of the human condition being comprised of many parts or experiences to make the whole, or who we are as individuals. In addition there is a purposeful nostalgia aesthetic built into the physical piece to create a hand-made, vintage quality.

exhibiting through OCTOBER 2022
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SYMBIOSIS

Opening Reception
Friday, july 29, 2022
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through September 3, 2022

Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce SYMBIOSIS : a solo exhibition featuring the art of Cameron Bliss from July 29th through September 3rd in our Grey Gallery.

“Exquisitely painted figures that are contorted and ponder-some, inquisitive and reflective, Cameron Bliss studies the female figure in worldly, lavish environments. Her paintings are intricately patterned, ornamental and iconographic, representing a moment in time for each central figure in their habitat. In the tradition of painters as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt and Edward Hopper, Bliss layers each piece using oil on canvas to invite the viewer into her world of characters in play, in pose, in peacefully enticing gazes. Her love for patterns, wallpaper, architecture, botanicals and clothing brings forth a rich and balanced representation of colorfully alluring paintings that are both imaginative and captivating. The work embodies modernity, the yearn for a simpler time and imbues us to learn that sometimes being is more important than doing.”

Our FANTASTICAL exhibition will be featured in our main gallery in tandem with SYMBIOSIS.

exhibiting through Friday, september 3, 2022

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IDENTITY

Opening Reception
Friday, APRIL 1, 2022
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through may 6, 2022

Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce IDENTITY: A Larry Jens Anderson Commemorative Exhibition from April 1st through May 6th, 2022 in our Grey Gallery.

We are pleased to present this commemorative exhibition featuring 25 artworks from Larry Jens Anderson, teacher, mentor, and friend.

From his series of All Dick no Jane, featuring elegantly rendered drawings of the classic icon Dick of Dick & Jane, which Larry recontexualizes into a representation of a gay boy in a contemporary setting, to art exploring the meaning of home and the history, shared life journeys and the love and loss that is found under one roof; from delicately deft ink and watercolor line work in Larry’s representation of himself in his piece Learning to Fall, to the whimsy, painterly and seemingly abstract colorfield strokes of thick, gestural pigments that can only be appreciated once the viewer zooms out to realize the moments of veiled painted plumes representing one of Larry’s favorite animals he would visit throughout his career, the pensively grazing cow; from the painted bouquet of wild and seemingly unkept flowers that Larry collected from his garden completed on June 12th, 2016 (the day 50 young gay people were killed at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL) which he used red paint to convey the loss and extreme grief that had befallen our nation and the LGBTQI community, to a collaged piece entitled The Twins, a diptych created through charcoal, thread, graphite and gold leaf meant to symbolize Larry and his twin brother Terry who had passed in the 1990s from complications with HIV.

This broad and extensive exhibition reflects the life and legacy and lessons of Larry and his ability to capture moments from all that he saw, all that he experienced: the laughter, the loss, the love, the lessons that were imparted through his hands onto the surface of the canvas.

We are so very grateful to have Hank Thomas, Larry’s husband and partner for over 38 years be with us for the opening of this exhibition:

“Welcome to everyone.  I was very fortunate to have had 38+ years with Larry.  He was a very unique person and I loved him very much. He took his career as a teacher and artist very seriously and felt everyone could benefit from some education of art and art history as it pertains to everyone and affects their life whether they knew it or not. He and I had numerous discussions on what was art and what was not but we always enjoyed our discussions and I always walked away changing my mind. Most of the time. He was a dedicated teacher and loved teaching and finding new talent and the energy of the students. He was always a student and was always learning too. 

I hope everyone enjoys the show and I am sure his spirit will be among us.  Thank you for coming. 

PS  We all miss you Larry.” 
Hank Thomas

Our FANTASTICAL exhibition will be featured in our main gallery in tandem with IDENTITY. We hope you’ll join us for this commemorative show.

exhibiting through Friday, May 6, 2022

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wonder

Opening Reception
Friday, December 3rd, 2021
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through january 21, 2022

Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce WONDER :: a small works exhibition from December 3rd, 2021 through January 21, 2022. WONDER is an evolving group exhibition of small works just in time for the holidays and will feature the art of:

Fabian Williams, Cameron Bliss, Lela Brunet, Phil Carpenter, Steven L Anderson, Todd Anderson, Marc Boyson, Dale Clifford, Marryam Moma, Patrick Heagney, Elliston Roshi, Greg Noblin, Tracy Murrell, Joe Camoosa, Stan Clark, and Luke Hamilton.

Our FANTASTICAL exhibition will be featured in our main gallery in tandem with WONDER in our grey gallery. We hope you’ll join us for this dynamic exhibition!

exhibiting through Friday, January 21, 2022

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FANTASTICAL

Opening Reception
Friday, SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through NOV 12

Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce our inaugural 2021 exhibition {after a 18 month hiatus} : FANTASTICAL exhibiting from September 10 - November 12, 2021. FANTASTICAL is a group exhibition featuring the following artists:

Steven L Anderson, Spencer Herr, Tracy Murrell, Marryam Moma, Todd Anderson, Jeremy Brown, Lela Brunet, Kevin Palme, Stan Clark, Greg Noblin, Larry Jens Anderson, Elliston Roshi, Jason Kofke, Patrick Heagney, Joe Camoosa, Alice Collins, Chloe Alexander, Johnny Warren, Chad Hayward, Cameron Bliss, Luke Hamilton, Marc Boyson, Sophia Sabsowitz and Lisa Hart

exhibiting through Friday, NOV 12, 2021

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CREATEHER

Opening Reception
Friday, MARCH 13TH, 2020
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through MAY 1ST

Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce our second exhibition for 2020 : CreateHer exhibiting from March 13th through May 1st. This exhibition is a curated group exhibition of 38 female creators working in a wide and diverse range of styles and mediums here in the Southeast.

In continuation of our core values of inclusion and representation, we have invited several new and returning voices. The styles and subject matter of artworks in CreateHer range from playful interpretations of architecture to abstraction of the natural world. Other works focus around explorations of the mind’s psychological tendencies and obsessions. Technique and materiality range as well from painting to printmaking, textile design to interdisciplinary practices.

CreateHer features the work of:

Lela brunet, lisa hart, lucha rodriguez, gail foster, Alice stone-collins, allison johnson, alLison Shockley, andrea Garland, Angie Jerez, Annamarie williams, barbara kuebel, cameron BLISS, cathlenE ficht, chloe alexander, Christina kwan, cyndey see, Valentina Custer O'Roark, elizabeth stockton, emily shopp, gwen gunter, jamie kim, jessica locklar, kavi, lindsay ryden, krista grecco, madison clark, marryam moma, mallory brooks, megan mcnaught, meredith lachin, michelle hoogveld, roxane hollosi, sandy teepen, sophia sabsowitz, Meredith Ochoa, stephanie smith, sabre eSLer, sue fox, tracy murrell, & vivian liddell.

exhibiting through Friday, may 1st, 2020

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IMAGINE

Opening Reception
Friday, JANUARY 17TH, 2020
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through MARCH 6

Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce our first exhibition for 2020 : IMAGINE exhibiting from January 17th through March 6th. IMAGINE is a four artist group exhibition that features the works Greg Noblin, Elliston Roshi, Stan Clark, and Kevin Palme.

The artwork of IMAGINE encompasses a diverse range of mediums and techniques with the underlying themes of imagination through childhood impossibilities and daydreams (Greg Noblin), imagination of abstract expressionist universes (Elliston Roshi), imagination of storytelling and folklore (Stan Clark), and imagination of fragility and impermanence through the exploration of ice cubes (Kevin Palme).

This latest body of work by Greg Noblin delves further into childhood memories of imagination. The narrative of his storybook scenes conjure up ideas of elation, connection, and whimsy. Using textures to create a sense of nostalgia, Noblin incorporates the stitching of gridded panels divided into even squares then reconstructed into a whole image. The result is a meshing of the artificial with the organic. The animals in his series act as a contemporary allegory for the viewer’s imagination.

Elliston Roshi returns to the gallery with this collection of a re-imagination of the ancient idea that an image floats in multiple spaces simultaneously. Each work of art is a shadowbox of the space between the viewer and painter, foreground (glass) and background (gesso panel), the macro and micro worlds of nature’s elements. The result of the organic with the geometric pigmented shapes and fluid movements result in a transitory state of flux. Elliston explores a range of colors and interplay of forms creating a symphony of dappled space, an imagined expression of abstraction.

Stan Clark explores the connection between memory, storytelling and imagination with this new body of artwork. Using heavyweight sheets of rag paper, like pages torn from a giant storybook, Clark recasts well-worn allegories from literature and folklore into a contemporary light. From pop-graphic interpretations of Greek Mythology and freshly animated illustrations of Oscar Wilde’s fables, recognizable settings and landscapes are reimagined as both familiar and otherworldly. Lustrous views of Georgian wilderness are rendered in neon-violet tones while luminous impressions of cityscapes are depicted in a series of overlapping impressions like the dazzling firework displays.

Ice painter Kevin Palme returns to the gallery to explore the impermanence as our only constant. We live in a world defined by change at every turn from mundane daily occurrences to seasonal transitions of birth and death. For Palme, painting feels permanent. A tower of ice cubes is, of course fragile and impermanent. It is a structure designed to fail and in doing so return to a prior state. While earlier iterations of the ice cubes were black and white, color has played an increasingly important role in the work encouraging new ideas and interpretations of the subject matter to emerge. Color imbues the work with a sense of history and ambience. Each palette carries a memory with it, creating opportunities for dialogue, remembering, and imagining possibilities.

exhibiting through Friday, march 6th, 2020

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ILLUMINATE : 11TH ANNIVERSARY

ILLUMINATE

Opening Reception
Friday, NOVEMBER 22, 2019
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through JANUARY 10, 2020

PRESS RELEASE

Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce our seventh and final exhibition of 2019 : ILLUMINATE : an 11th anniversary exhibition featuring 20 Southeastern based artists:

Greg Noblin, Jacob Crook, Hannah Adair, Patrick Heagney, Stan Clark, Elliston Roshi (Sensei), Landon M. Perkins, Chad Hayward, Lisa Hart, Kalina Winska, Kevin Palme, Valerie Zimany, Roxane Hollosi, Dale Clifford, Brett Miotti, Blockhead (Chris Skeene), Jeremy Brown, Adam Podber, Joe Camoosa, and Todd Anderson. 

We are so very grateful for your continued support and dedication to the arts. Thank you to all our patrons, collectors, artists, curators, museums, consultants, companies and creatives that have come through our gallery doors. It is because of your support and patronage that we can continue to keep art alive in Atlanta.

exhibiting through Friday, january 10, 2020

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passage

Opening Reception
Friday, September 27, 2019
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through November 15

Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce our sixth exhibition of 2019 : PASSAGE exhibiting from September 27th through November 15th. PASSAGE is a four artist group exhibition that features the works of Atlanta-based artists Larry Jens Anderson, Steven L. Anderson, Hannah Adair, and Chattanooga-based artist Marc Boyson. The artworks of PASSAGE encompass a diverse range of mediums and techniques with the underlying themes of passage of life (L. Anderson), passage of nature (S. Anderson), passage of body (Adair), and passage of time (Boyson). Almost all the works in this exhibit will be on paper with some sculptural pieces that compliment their respective bodies of work.

In this latest collection from long time gallery resident Larry Jens Anderson, the concept of Passage takes on more profound meanings. Through body changes and illnesses, there is a realization that the passage of time brings us closer to death. Friends and family die and artistically, Anderson’s ability to perform and create takes on new relevance. Overlapping the contemporary attitudes to guns and being homosexual means Anderson is a part of a target group. Going to school or a concert, church, synagogue or bar used to be innocent, safe and now are tainted by the fear of dying. Using humor, art history, and religion as devices to communicate, Anderson explores gun violence and sexuality in our new complex reality of uncertainty.

Steven L. Anderson joins the gallery for his first exhibition of artwork exploring the passage of nature through intricately rendered tree rings. These works are an inquiry into the systems of our natural world from the perspective of a plant or a tree. The intention is to bring about a new vision for seeing the natural world which can open up the potential for seeing our human systems. The Tree Rings artworks are a way of growing a drawing: Anderson draws circles with markers and pens that closely follow the circle before it, expanding as the rings build and bring the form into existence. These meditations on growth and the passage of time provide context to reflect our own lifespans, activities and histories.

Printmaker Hannah Adair returns to our gallery with a body of work that explores the tactile, sensual body and abstract inner experience. Inspired by the mythological figure Lilith, the first woman before Eve who is exiled from the Garden of Eden for refusing to be subordinate to Adam, Adair delves into the subjects of sexuality and the monstrous feminine with a sense of humor and wit. Her work is one of representation and abstraction, a sense of natural and landscape, the passage of the body through chaos and control. 

Marc Boyson returns with his intuitive traces mapping moments of passage through contemporary cartography. These delicate ink line drawings on paper are an accumulation of time collected to reveal as a whole the meander of his hand. Derived from the process of remembering journeys down gridded city streets, winding country roads, and hikes throughout his life, images of these memories flow through Boyson’s mind and translate into the line wander across the paper plane. These renderings become a passage of memories into the visible, an Intuitive Derive.

exhibiting through Friday, November 15, 2019

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EMBOLDEN

Opening Reception
Friday, AUGUST 2, 2019
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through September 20th

EMBOLDEN :: AUGUST 2 - SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 | Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce our next exhibition: Embolden, on display from August 2nd through September 20th. Our fifth exhibit for 2019, Embolden will feature the work of Atlanta artists Lela Brunet, Phillip Harris, Joe Camoosa, Lucha Rodriguez, Jeremy Brown and Stan Clark. The artworks of Embolden feature strong, saturated colors, sweeping movements of abstract forms and inventive combinations of materials and processes. 

Lela Brunet’s most recent works continue within her subject of goddess and the deified female form, exploring the role of power and femininity of the wider universe. Brunet is obsessed with fine details, intricate lines, unique color combinations, and geometric patterns. Her multimedia approach includes materials such as graphite, ink, coffee, acrylic, tissue bleed, and marker. Careful consideration for the posing and expressions of Brunet’s subjects have the hands gestured to depict power and purpose. The figures clothing is vibrantly earthy and sprouting from within with hair that is alive and animated. 

Phil Harris has been hard at work developing the newest collection of art, an exciting step in a new direction. The pieces are contemporary yet familiar, with a subtle sophistication spanning a variety of techniques and themes. It’s a journey back to some of his earliest work and techniques, experimenting with different ways of using plexiglass. This collection has an emphasis on carpentry, and leaner more elegant compositions than the previous work. Thematically, it’s an unusual but pleasant marriage between mid-century modern aesthetics and cyberpunk inspired abstractions.

Joe Camoosa returns to Kai Lin Art with several large scale oil paintings that continue to explore themes of modernity, abstract formalism and the relationship between the painter and the painting. Informed by cartography, music, aerial and urban landscapes and architectural fragments, Camoosa’s work is exceptionally unique and immediately identifiable. His paintings ask the viewer to stand back and become enveloped by the work but also to examine closely and see how all of the pieces fit together. 

Lucha Rodriguez continues to develop her collection of Knife Drawings, artworks made by watercolor and razor sharp cuts on the surface of the paper. Rodriguez’s Knife drawings challenge the viewer to take a second look at something that from a far seems simple and trivial but on a closer look, surprises them with intimate detail and complexity. These knife drawings are meant to represent the union between precision and intuition; organic and geometric; simplicity and complexity. It encourages them to know the work not by their first impressions but by taking a long hard look at what’s really beneath the surface.

Jeremy Brown’s most recent artworks grace the entrances of Embolden with an all out and eye catching style. Brown combines his thoughtful and impassioned approach to art making with a disciplined and practiced technique of multi-material combinations of layered resin, aerosol, brushless painting and neon lights. 

Stan Clark joins the gallery for Embolden with a series of super saturated paintings depicting the quiet moments of modern life and introspective struggles of the mind. Coming from a medical background, Clark plays with both landscapes and the human form in a style that is simultaneously precise and impressionistic. 

EMBOLDEN exhibits through Friday, September 20th, 2019

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THE NEW SOUTH 4

Opening Reception
Friday, JUNE 7, 2019
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
ARTIST MIXER :: SATURDAY, JULY 13, 4-8 PM

The New South 4 June 7 - July 26, 2019 | Kai Lin Art is proud to host our fourth annual juried exhibition of works on paper, The New South 4. The show explores the contemporary South through the perspectives of 39 artists living and working throughout the Southeast. From over 2,000 submitted artworks, 80 pieces were selected for the exhibition.

Overseeing the selection process this year are our jurors Lisa Hart, Professor of Foundation Studies at SCAD Atlanta who has been exhibited internationally within the United States, Mexico and Europe, and Todd Anderson, Professor of Printmaking at Clemson University who has been collected by institutions such as the U.S. Library of Congress, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both artists are represented in Atlanta by Kai Lin Art and we are very grateful for lending us their time and expertise in the selection process.

FEATURING THE ART OF:
CHLOE ALEXANDER, STEVEN ANDERSON, JO ARELLANES, HONOR BOWMAN HALL, LANNY BREWSTER, RAJ BUNNAG, PHILIP CARPENTER, DONNA CATOTTI, MARY BETH CORNELIUS, MARY COZENS, JACOB CROOK, FRANKLIN DELGADO, MANTY DEY, JESSICA DURANT, DEBBIE EZELL, CATHLEEN FICHT, GWEN GUNTER, CHAD HAYWARD, ROXANE HOLLOSI, SUSAN HOPP, ALLISON JOHNSON, LORI BROOK JOHNSON, KATHY A KITZ, STEPHANIE KOLPY, CHRISTINA KWAN, LU LIU, GENIE MAPLES, BRETT MIOTTI, MARRYAM MOMA, ANDREW MULLALLY, ROB NIXON, JONATHAN PRICHARD, MARK SCHOON, EMILY SHOPP, DREW TETZ, RYLAN THOMPSON, LISA D. WATSON, DENISE WELLBROCK, ANNAMARIE WILLIAMS, APPLE ZHAO

THE NEW SOUTH 4 exhibition runs through July 26th, 2019

MOMENTUM

Opening Reception
Friday, april 12, 2019
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through MAY 31st

MOMENTUM - APRIL 12 - MAY 31, 2019 | KAI LIN ART is pleased to announce our third exhibition of 2019 featuring the collaborations of Lela Brunet & Phil Harris, Jeremy Brown & Adam Podber, Joe Camoosa & Ryan McCullough, Fabian Williams, Miya Bailey, Blockhead and Kevin Palme. This exhibition centers around collaborative works by a diverse group of regional Southeastern-based artists who are creating work that reflects our contemporary state of creativity and shows what can happen when we work together.

Resident gallery artists Lela Brunet and Phil Harris collaborate together on three new large scale works that combines their aesthetics into layered, pop-infused, portraits of female goddesses made of sharp lines, bold colors and delicate figures. Long time artist at the gallery, Jeremy Brown collaborates with Adam Podber on a group of multimedia pieces that combine graffiti, aerosol, graphic design and resin.

Joe Camoosa returns to Kai Lin Art with Tampa-based artist Ryan McCullough collaborating on a large selection of works on paper. Mesmerizing compositions of lines, overlapping colors and interwoven geometric shapes and lines come together as Camoosa and McCullough merge their respective styles into an abstractly formal yet progressively fluid style.

Atlanta Artist Fabian Williams, know for his cosmic style and large scale murals around the city, is collaborating with artists Malika Deshon and Barry Duperon for several pieces in the exhibition. Miya Bailey of Peter Street Station and City of Ink will be showing at Kai Lin Art for the first time. Bailey has created a new body of work for our gallery featuring abstracted figures and natural palettes. MOMENTUM will also include one of the most collaborative artists at the gallery, Blockhead (C. Skeene) who invites a group of collaborators to bring their own styles onto the blank canvas of his iconic hand-carved blockhead in new inventive ways.

To round out the exhibition, Asheville resident and artist Kevin Palme returns to Kai Lin Art with his exquisitely refined and incredibly skilled oil paintings for a solo show within our Grey Gallery. Palme, previously a part of our 2018 exhibition Magic, paints still lives of melting ice cubes, frozen in a state of rest but leaping out of the canvas with truly magical effects. Each piece is painted in a serene hues that dance between abstraction and photo realism.

MOMENTUM exhibits through Friday, May 31st, 2019

PRINT BIENNIAL 2019

Opening Reception
Friday, MARCH 8TH, 2019
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through APRIL 5

ATLANTA PRINTMAKERS STUDIO PRINT BIENNIAL MARCH 8 - APRIL 5, 2019 | KAI LIN ART is pleased to announce our second exhibition of 2019:

The Atlanta Print Biennial is an international juried exhibition, open to all artists working in hand-pulled printmaking processes. The exhibit is organized by Atlanta Printmakers Studio and hosted by Kai Lin Art, a contemporary art gallery located in the vibrant Westside District of Midtown Atlanta, GA. This year’s Biennial features 48 artists from around the world and 67 selected artworks.

This year’s juror is Eun Lee. Lee was born in Seoul, Korea and has had many roles in academia and service. She was the program coordinator for the printmaking minor at SCAD in Savannah and served as the Conference Coordinator of SGC International, the largest printmaking organization in North America. Also during her tenure with SGCI, she has served as President, Vice President of External Affairs, Chair of the Nominations Committee, Chair of the Awards Committee and Student Representative. She has also served the prior SGEO organization as President and Vice President. Eun received her MFA from the University of Notre Dame and her BFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

APS HISTORY

The Atlanta Printmakers Studio (APS) was established to support the fine art of printmaking in metro Atlanta. Founders envisioned an organization that would provide a well-equipped printmaking studio for local artists as well as raise the awareness of printmaking as an art form. In August 2005 the incorporation papers were signed and in December 2006 APS’s 501c3 non-profit status was approved – Atlanta Printmakers Studio was founded.

Local art centers, universities, and galleries made available their facilities and galleries for workshops and exhibits as APS built membership and formed the organization. During the first year APS received many generous equipment donations. However, we needed of a permanent home. After many months of looking at potential studio space APS moved into the Metropolitan Warehouse complex. The doors opened in November 2006 near downtown Atlanta, and classes began in January 2007. Over the years APS has become a vital printmaking resource for artists, collectors, college students and children.

CONTEMPLATIVE

Opening Reception
Friday, JANUARY 11, 2019
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through MARCH 1

CONTEMPLATIVE JANUARY 11 - MARCH 1, 2019 | KAI LIN ART is pleased to announce our first exhibition of 2019: CONTEMPLATIVE (January 11th - March 1, 2019) featuring the artwork of artists: Greg Noblin, Todd Anderson, Patrick Heagney, Valerie Zimany and Blockhead (Chris Skeene). CONTEMPLATIVE features an intriguing collection of image-based artworks and sculptures that entice viewers for quiet and peaceful moments of reflection.

Long time resident artist of the gallery, Greg Noblin returns with a new series of his signature panelist works. Noblin works to incorporate layers of meaning, symbolism and texture in his artworks through a multistep process of photo collage and panel printing. The final works are a combination of surrealism, photography and landscape supported by organic and inorganic structures. The whimsical and sometimes surreal images offer a glimpse of shared human experiences of struggle, joy, successes and failures. These worlds are a place where nothing is impossible, perception is everything, and reality is what you create.

Master printmaker Todd Anderson’s practice involves long-term, team-based projects that investigate ecological changes to wilderness areas caused by global warming. Anderson, who traditionally works in the ancient practice of woodblock printing, has developed a new experimental photogravure process for the works of CONTEMPLATIVE.  Anderson is committed to preserving the romantic beauty of the natural world and at the same time drawing attention to the dire and uncertain futures of these landscapes and ecologies. Anderson returns to the gallery with a new series of work featuring the stunning beauty of America’s trees and the devastating impact of the mountain pine beetle.

Patrick Heagney is an award winning commercial and editorial photographer who has been exhibiting his work nationally since 2001. His latest body of work combines sculpture and photography to create whimsical fairytale-like worlds out of cut paper. Each piece in this series uses the setting and characters in it to tell a parable about love and relationships.  

Valerie Zimany examines complex relationships between the East and West, nature and technology, and intimate and public worlds through the lens of her American background and extended education in Japan. Borrowed and appropriated images from the histories of art, nature, and society transform surfaces, and suggest symbolic intersections between these different cultures. Distantly familiar archetypes from 1970’s electronics and design, traditional textile patterns, vintage enameled china, and manga or graffiti overlap to create seemingly improbable combinations. Narratives stretch over forms evocative of botanicals and the body, and are often colored with uneasy sensuality or aggressiveness, yet allure with voluptuous softness. Small vignettes hide in crevices as memories do in the corners of the mind. By clashing colors, forms, and imagery she forces relationships or questions the compatibility, and parallel a feeling of wandering out of place at just the right time.

Blockhead is a pseudonym invented by Chris Skeene in 2011 as a way to explore the thriving free art scene in Atlanta. Inspired by his collection of Pez dispensers and blind box art toys (such as figures by be@rbrick or Kidrobot), Chris uses blockheads to bring variety to the repetition of a singular form. Though much of the inspiration for his work are from machine-made items, blockheads are each hand-carved and painted, thereby highlighting the individuality and uniqueness of each piece. Chris also extends the unique nature of the figures by inviting collaborators to bring their own styles to the blank canvas of a carved blockhead.

CONTEMPLATIVE will be on exhibit through Friday, March 1st, 2019.

RADIATE : 10 year ANNIVERSARY

RADIATE :: NOV 16, 2018 - JAN 4, 2019

Opening Friday, NOV 16, 2018
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through JAn 4, 2019

Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce our final exhibition of 2018, RADIATE : A 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY. Throughout the last decade, we’ve worked and exhibited over 500 artists from across the Southeast and beyond. In this retrospective, we have curated sixty artists from our stable to present artwork that best represents their aesthetic. Many of our Kai Lin Artists are creating fresh new artworks for this exhibition.

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featuring the work of
70 Dot - Donna Howells, Alexi Torres, Amy Douglas, Andrea Garland, Andrew Catanese, Art Werger, Ashley L. Schick, Blockhead, Brad Johnston, Carl Janes, Carmen Rice, Cynthia Lollis, Dale Clifford, Erik Waterkotte, Fabian Williams, GREG MIKE, Gregory Noblin, Hannah Adair, Inkyeong Baek, Jaeyoun Shin, Jamaal Barber, KOFKE Jason Kofke, Jeremy Brown, Joe Camoosa, John Morse, John Tindel, Johnny Warren, Julio Ceballos, Kevin Palme, Landon Perkins, LarrY JENS Anderson, Lee Arnett, Lela BRUNET, Lisa Hart, Lucha Rodriguez, Lynx, Marc Boyson, Michael Elliston, mike lowery, Nate Damen, Nate Dorn, Niki ZarrabI, Patrick Heagney, Phil Harris, Roxane HollOSI, Sam Parker, Sanithna, Spencer Sloan, Steven Anderson, Stephen Philms, Tim Kent, Todd Anderson, Tracy Murrell, Trish LanD, Valentina Custer, Valerie Zimany, Wen Lin, Wesley Terpstra, Will Eskridge, Wyatt Graff, AND Yohey Horishita

We are so grateful for your support and dedication to the arts. Thank you to all the patrons, collectors, artists, curators, museums, corporations, consultants, and creatives that have come through our gallery doors. It is because of your support that we can continue on our trajectory to keeping art alive in Atlanta.

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Infinity

Opening Reception
Friday, September 28th, 2018
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
Exhibition runs through November 9th, 2018

INFINITY September 28th- November 9th, 2018 | Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce our exhibition: INFINITY. This exhibition is a curated group show of nineteen female artists working in a range of styles and mediums. In continuation of our core values of inclusion and equal representation, Kai Lin Art has invited several new and returning voices to the gallery in a effort to represent an often-minimized perspective within the art community and at large.  

The styles and subjects of artworks in INFINITY range from playful interpretations of architecture to abstraction of the natural world. Other works focus around explorations of the mind’s psychological tendencies and obsessions. Techniques and materials range from painting and printmaking to textile design and interdisciplinary practices.

featuring the work of : 70Dot, Hannah Adair, Inkyeong Baek, Lauren Betty, Claire Carswell, Valentina Custer O’Roark, Maggie Dimmick, Gwen Gunter, Lisa Hart, Roxane Hollosi, Stephanie Howard, Allison James, Christina Kwan, Aslee Livingston, Lyn Montagne, Carmen Rice, Lucha Rodriguez, Emma J. Starr, and Hannah Surace.

SUBLIME

Opening Reception
Friday AUGUST 3, 2018
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
exhibit runs through SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

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SUBLIME August 3 - September 21, 2018 | Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce the opening of SUBLIME, our sixth exhibition of 2018. Featuring new artwork from Jeremy Brown, Lela Brunet, Elliston Roshi, Blockhead, and introducing Phil Harris, SUBLIME brings dynamic abstract paintings on resin, plexiglass, and paper into the gallery in addition to the uniquely collectible sculptures of Blockhead. Each artist has collaborated together on multiple artworks making this exhibition simply sublime.

sublime /səˈblīm/ of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe. synonyms: elevated, awe-inspiring, majestic, magnificent, glorious, superb, wonderful, marvelous, splendid.

Resident Kai Lin Artist Jeremy Brown creates a fresh collection of his signature layered resin works. Part of Brown’s aesthetic is derived from the complex, layered, out of the box nature found in street art. He uses unconventional materials such as aerosols, concrete, and custom neon light fixtures. The works of SUBLIME are influenced by the nature of memories and recreation and make use of found objects by integrating them directly into the artwork. All of Brown’s pieces are held together through a strong interest and care for humanity and compassion.

The highly sought after and prolific multimedia artist and muralist Lela Brunet has developed a new series of goddesses and sirens for SUBLIME. Combining modern and graphic patterns with a multitude of mixed media practices in addition to influences from her multicultural upbringing, Brunet has continued her affinity for depicting powerful female icons and deities from cultures around the world. The works of SUBLIME draw inspiration from the canonical Hindu goddesses such as Devi and Kali as well as introducing a smaller series of collectable, abstracted florals. 

Disciplined artist and director of the Atlanta Zen Center Elliston Roshi paints flowingly abstract artworks on plexiglass and gesso panel. Framed together, the two paintings become one in an overlapping harmony of colors and shapes inspired by musical abstraction and zen. The newest series by Roshi introduces singular geometric forms to contrast with the organic, flowing movements of color and creates the perception of depth and distance in the artworks. 

Blockhead is a pseudonym invented by Chris Skeene as a way to explore the thriving free art scene in Atlanta. Inspired by his collection of Pez and blind box art toys, Chris uses blockheads to bring variety to the repetition of a singular form. Though much of the inspiration for his work are from machine-made items, blockheads are each hand-carved and painted, thereby highlighting the individuality and uniqueness of each piece. Chris also extends the unique nature of the figures by inviting collaborators to bring their own styles to the blank canvas of a carved blockhead. Collaborations include Blockheads painted by SUBLIME artists Lela Brunet and Phil Harris and Atlanta artist Niki Zarrabi. 

FRESH artist Phil Harris joins Kai Lin Art with a new series of works for his first exhibition at the gallery. Harris’ work takes the colors and feelings of pop culture and music as a starting point for complex, detailed and geometrically layered abstract paintings on plexiglass. Each work is a dual painting of two plexiglass panels sandwiched together. His signature concentric semi-circles dominate the front panels with beautiful surfaces and unique combinations of colors and patterns while underneath the translucent pane a loose and dynamic aerosol painting creates the moody atmosphere. Harris has collaborated with Lela Brunet, Blockhead and Jeremy Brown for three separate partnerships of style and artwork for SUBLIME. 

The New South III

Opening Reception
Friday June 22, 2018
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
exhibit runs through July 27, 2018

The New South III June 22 - July 27, 2018 | Kai Lin Art is proud to host our third annual juried exhibition of works on paper, The New South III. The show explores the contemporary South through the perspectives of 60 artists living and working throughout the Southeast. From over 1,000 submitted artworks, 75 pieces were selected for the exhibition.

Overseeing the selection process this year are our jurors Justin Rabideau, Director of The Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum at Kennesaw State University and Larry Jens Anderson, Professor of Art at The Atlanta College of Art & SCAD-Atlanta.

Featuring the work of:

Hannah Adair, Priscilla Alarcon, Rose M. Barron, Steven Anderson, Marie Porterfield Barry, Brendan Baylor, Rita Bazinet, Faye Bell, Marc Boyson, Lanny Brewster, Samantha Burns, Hannah Burton, Sierra Bush, Joe Camoosa, Jennifer Cantley, Julio Ceballos, Madison Clark, Joe Cory, Philip Crawford, Colleen Critcher, Michael Crouse, Valentina Custer O’Roark, Dan Dixon, Joseph Dreher, Sabre Elser, Debbie Ezell, Sue Fox, Andrea Garland, Ashley Gregg, Gwen Gunter, Julie Henry, Maxine Hess, Roxane Hollosi, Mark Hosford, Alea Hurst, Courtney Khail, Axelle Kieffer, Jamie Kim, Laila Kouri, Christina Kwan, Trish Land, Jessica Locklar, Ry McCullough, Casey Mark McGuire Schoon, Lyn Sterling Montagne, Andrew Munoz, Madison Osborne, Coki Panda, Chr!s Reel, Flora Rosefsky, Nell Ruby, Richard Solomon, Emma Starr, Hannah Surace, Chadwick Tolley, Alexi Torres, Katie Troisi, Annemarie Williams, Rebecca Young, Valerie Zimany

MAGIC

APRIL 27 - JUNE 15, 2018

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Opening Reception
Friday, April 27, 2018
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public // exhibiting through june 15, 2018

MAGIC : APRIL 27 - JUNE 15 | Kai Lin Art is excited announce our third exhibition of 2018: MAGIC, featuring new artwork from Larry Jens Anderson, Greg Noblin, Kevin Palme and Andrew Catanese. Each of these artists work in a range of mediums from painting and drawing to photographic illustration. The artists of MAGIC draw inspiration from a fantastical world of imagination and inspiration. Featuring refreshing and vibrant imagery, MAGIC is the perfect exhibition to start Spring. 

Larry Jens Anderson, a longtime artist of the gallery and lauded Professor of Art at SCAD and the Atlanta College of Art has been an inspiration and mentor for many artists over his multi-decade art career. Anderson takes over our Grey Gallery for MAGIC with an experimental collection of paintings, watercolors, and drawings. Themes and motifs of illusions, alternate realities, death and politics weave through the body of work which explores the magic of illusion from making things appear where there was once emptiness. Much of the work challenges the viewer to consider how the unexplainable can continually occur. Though the subject matter may vary, Anderson’s concept of pulling things out of the void remains the same. 

Photographer and photo manipulation wizard Greg Noblin returns to the gallery with a new collection of his trademark panelist works. Drawing inspiration from twilight hours and liminal, the transitory space in Noblin’s images are simple and beautiful. Curious animals and quiet spaces find their way through the night sky and magically transport the viewer to a place of tranquil introspection. Noblin has been working as an artist and photographer since the early 2000’s and recently won International Photographer of the Year. 

Based in Asheville North Carolina, painter Kevin Palme brings his larger scale still life to Atlanta for MAGIC. Rendered with incredible technique, the ice cubes of Palme’s oil paintings dance between abstraction and photo realism allowing for considerations of the form and color as well as the life-like, temporary quality in each of the ice cubes. Palme’s cubes are frozen in state of rest but leaping out of the canvas with truly magical effects. The reflected images are visible in the melted foreground and the serene hues shift and change as the viewer moves through each piece.

Andrew Catanese developed a body of work that engages in a process of myth making. The paintings adapt vignettes from Dante’s Inferno and places them in landscapes along the Chattahoochee River. Encounters with coyote and deer in the dark woods and along the liminal space of the river hold intrinsic symbolism akin to formal narratives like those in Dante’s epic poem. The works, through the incorporation of Dante’s writing, critically address archaic moral dogmas whose arbitrary values have never reflected the complexity of the human condition. Catanese imbues these places with myth and magic as a way to discuss how people form a sense of who they are and their moral systems based upon their surroundings. In doing so, the landscapes become important parts of a person’s identity as they learn and construct mythologies. 

FRESH 2

MARCH 9 - APRIL 20, 2018

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Opening Reception
Friday, MARCH 9th, 2018
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public // exhibiting through APRIL 20, 2018

FRESH 2 March 9th - April 20th, 2018 | Kai Lin Art is pleased to announce our second exhibition of 2018: FRESH 2. This exhibition is a curated group show of twenty artists working in a range of styles and mediums.

FRESH 2 features the work of Kai Lin Artists : atlTVhead, Lee Arnett , Inkyeong Baek, Lauren Betty, Andrew Catanese, Will Eskridge, Mike Germon, Phil Harris, Lisa Hart, Chris Hobe, Michelle Martin, Dustin Lee Massey, Art McNaughton, Landon Perkins, Stephen Philms, Carmen Rice, Chris Skeene, Freda Sue, Jesse Watts, Art Werger, Jay Wiggins (Evereman), and Kevin Palme.

These artists have been selected by Kai Lin Art as fresh and unique voices in Atlanta and follows up 2017’s FRESH exhibition as an opportunity for Kai Lin Art to show selected works from some of the many incredible artists we have developed relationships with over the past 10 years. FRESH 2 is a cross-section all of the diverse and dynamic artistic styles and perspectives in the city. 

CONVERGENCE

JANUARY 19 - March 2, 2018

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Opening Reception
Friday, January 19th, 2018
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public // exhibiting through march 2, 2018

Convergence January 19th - March 2nd |  Kai Lin Art is excited to begin 2018 with an incredible exhibition of 4 artists. Convergence brings together Joe Camoosa, Jason Kofke, Ashley L. Schick, and Lucha Rodriguez for explorations in abstraction and inspiration. An undercurrent of place in time and location guide viewers through the works as they situate themselves in the abstract and austere beauty. Follow Kai Lin Art through 2018 as we celebrate 10 years of making art happen in Atlanta with seven shows this year including a special anniversary exhibition featuring many of our longtime artists.  

Joe Camoosa returns to Kai Lin Art with a selection of large and detailed oil paintings that overlap translucent fields of color with interwoven geometric shapes and lines. At times sculptural and endless, Camoosa’s works are abstract and formal, influenced by shifts in perception - the momentary in-between space conjured by viewing what may appear to be an aerial landscape, map, or fragment of a building…the alternation between recognition and abstraction – of being someplace and nowhere at the same time.

Jason Kofke explores the concept of sudden change through historically inspired moments where humanity is connected. These carefully rendered images of scientists, technology, and astronauts in space suits suggests that human ambition and innovation can be both ascendant and ominous. Kofke imbues each piece with nostalgia and these works explore memories of a bygone era as catalysts for human connection and innovation. Working through the timeline of history and employing the techniques of centuries old printmaking processes, Kofke’s work has the feeling of timelessness and permanence.

Ashley L. Schick makes works on paper and artists’ books. The daughter of a biology teacher and an electrical engineer, her work mixes the biological and the industrial. Schick has an MFA in Printmaking and is a Visual Arts faculty member at the Lovett School. The Sea and Sky series of collagraphs and watercolors in Convergence recall the ever-changing rocky landscape around Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, in northwest Ireland. The majority of the prints in this series were created at the studios of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland. Each print is a monoprint, meaning it has a unique color combination and may include multiple full-strength and ghost impressions.

Lucha Rodriguez was born in Caracas, Venezuela and lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. Her artwork mimics intricate patterns found in the inner workings of the human body while exploring ideas of abstraction, replication and separation. Although Rodriguez is most recognized for her site-specific paper installations, she has explored a variety of media including copper, textiles, paint, plexiglass and sound. Her series of 10 Knife drawings on view in Convergence pair texture and flatness in pink, monochromatic, minimal compositions.

Opening Friday, January 19th, 7 - 10 PM
Artist Talk Saturday, February 10th, 4 - 5 PM
Evening Hours Thursday, February 15th, 6 - 8 PM
Volume Performance Thursday, March 1st, 7 - 9 PM

REVERENCE

November 17th, 2017 - January 12th, 2018

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Opening Reception
Friday, November 17th, 2017
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public // exhibit runs through January 12th, 2018

REVERENCE November 17th - January 12th |  Reverence is the 7th and final exhibition of Kai Lin Art’s programming for 2017 with an exciting group show of 5 artists working in diverse mediums and aesthetics. Reverence features the work of Jeremy Brown, Patrick Heagney, Wyatt Graff, Chris Skeene (AKA Blockhead) and Lee Arnett. Engaging with non-traditional uses of their mediums and materials, the artists bring together painting, photography, sculpture and collaboration celebrating the uniqueness and diversity in life. 

Jeremy Brown creates art as a way of expressing himself and appreciating the world around us. Part of Brown’s aesthetic is derived from the complex, layered, out of the box nature found in street art and everyday life. Reverence introduces signs of life and the outside world to the abstract and layered resin paintings he has come to be known for. Brown creates work as an act of meditation with a yearning to maintain love, passion, energy, and harmony. 

Moving to Atlanta from Alabama in 2010, Lee Arnett has freelanced as a graphic designer, started a clothing brand and completed several murals around town for restaurants, businesses and neighborhoods. Lee considers art ”without a doubt my truest passion in life.” His paintings combine canvas, cardboard, figurative and abstract. Arnett plays with the relationship between words and symbols in his paintings. Instilling a sense of self, he reminds the viewer that the human behavior relies on one’s emotion and relationship with others. 

Patrick Heagney is an Atlanta-based professional photographer. He received his BFA in Photography from The Savannah College of Art and Design. His work has been featured in numerous publications including Architectural Digest, Atlanta Magazine, Southern Accents, and Veranda. His ongoing Chimera series manipulates light and time around the camera to produce gestural figurative renderings of natural human movements and relationships. The movement conveys the choreography of the subject but also the viewer. Faces, arms or backdrops can sometimes be recognized in the images, as to hint at the process of creation. 

Wyatt Graff explores Modernism in a Post-Modern age. With an eye cast on the traditional concerns of both painting and sculpture, Graff creates object-based environments, influenced by Modernist principles. These principles brought forward in time, focus on the relationship between wall, paint, and support to create a Post-Modern fusion of sculpture and painting.  This merger activates materials and recognizes spatial relationships.  The end result is not painting or sculpture, but rather a new way of investigating both disciplines.

Chris Skeene, or Blockhead, uses his blockhead sculptures to bring variety to the repetition of a singular form. Often borrowing themes or influences from art history and pop culture the sculptures come in a variety of characters and icons. Skeene regularly collaborates with various  Atlanta artists as the form allows for infinite possibilities unveiled by the imagination of others. Reverence will feature original Blockheads and collaborations with Lela Brunet, Joe King, Donna Howell, Monica Alexander, Andrew Catanese, Lindsay Ryden, Hannah Pearman, Matt Field and AtlTvHead.

Artist Talk   Saturday   December 9 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Evening Hours   Thursday   December 14 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Volume V: Closing   Thursday   January 11 7:00 - 9:00 pm

FLOURISH

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Opening Reception
Friday, September 15th, 2017
7:00 - 10:00 PM
free and open to the public
exhibit runs through November 10th, 2017

FLOURISH September 15th - November 10th, 2017 | Kai Lin Art opens FLOURISH this Friday, September 15th, from 7pm to 10pm. This is the sixth exhibition of 2017 for Kai Lin Art and features the work of four Atlanta based artists exploring the concepts of patterns, repetition and psychology. Lela Brunet, Joe Camoosa, Marv Graff and Lynx Nguyen grace the gallery with their own individual series of works.

Long time artist of the gallery Lela Brunet showcases a new group of her signature mixed media works blending detailed figures, colorful patterning, gradients with silver and gold leaf. Brunet’s work features representations of strong, deity inspired women under celestial backdrops while mixing influences from mythologies and fairy tales where the figure is placed in intriguing roles. She enjoys working primarily on paper with a mixture of mediums such as acrylic, ink, marker, coffee, graphite pencil, tissue paper bleed, and occasionally oil paint. 

Recent Walthall Fellow Joe Camoosa joins Kai Lin Art with a series of concise, bold, graphic works on paper, mylar and canvas that combine drawing with collage. Camoosa’s works are abstract and formal, influenced by shifts in perception - the momentary in-between space conjured by viewing what may appear to be an aerial landscape, map, or fragment of a building. In each piece is the alternation between recognition and abstraction – of being someplace and nowhere at the same time. 

Lynx Nguyen returns to Kai Lin Art with a collection of new large scale panels in his instantly recognizable tally-mark style. His drawings take the form of minimal meditations on repetitions, line, and discipline. Lynx’s work is process-oriented, requiring thousands of ball-point pens and hundreds of hours of mark-making. He elevates the simple act of tally-marking into new forms of consideration. Lynx has previously been a part of both Fresh and the New South at Kai Lin Art. 

Rounding out the artworks in Flourish, Marv Graff has brought several of his delicate and decorated sculptural assemblages. His works are naturalistic equine sculptures crafted out of luxurious and rare materials such as swarovski crystals, silver threads, elk antlers and rare woods. His detailed and meticulous process involves threading and weaving with the precious materials playing with the sense of inherent value and tangible effort.

Long time artist of the gallery, Greg Noblin returns with a fresh series of his signature Panelist works. Noblin works to incorporate layers of meaning, symbolism and texture in his artworks through a multistep process of photo-collage and panel printing. The final works are a combination of surrealism, photography and landscape supported by organic and inorganic structures. Sometimes humorous or fantastic, these allegorical illustrations serve as a bridge between the childhood imagination and adult “reality”.  

Artist Talk   Saturday October 14 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Collectors Night   Thursday October 26 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Volume IV: Closing   Thursday November 9 7:00 - 9:00 pm

SPECTRUM

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SPECTRUM July 28th - September 8th, 2017 | Kai Lin Art invites Atlanta to our 2017 Summer exhibition SPECTRUM. The fifth show of Kai Lin Art for the year features the works and collaborations of five talented artists: Jeremy Brown, Blockhead, Tim Kent, Chris Hobé, and Kevin Palme. SPECTRUM emphasizes the different ways color and form can evoke meaning, memories, and ideas. These artists make use of gradients, abstraction and forms beyond the 2D picture plane.

Jeremy Brown returns to the gallery with a new series of artwork. These new piece - informed by Brown’s previous layed resin works - essentialize the artist’s philosophy of simplicity and kindness. Inspired by minimalism, raw materials, and the use of created shadows, this body of work is stripped down to the roots. In life, simple & spontaneous kindness is key: the root of something much bigger and louder.

Popular and prolific Blockhead (AKA Chris Skeene) showcases a brand new series of his iconic square headed sculptures for SPECTRUM. Skeene’s love of collectible and limited sculptural toys such as Kid Robot and Pez collections influences his approach to the hand-sculpted and carefully hand-painted characters he brings to life as Blockheads.

Artist Tim Kent brings his unique and precise style to SPECTRUM with a new series of shaped canvas pieces. Employing a new technique of opposing gradients and negative spaces, Kent’s newest works jump off the wall and into a new dimension. Kent’s work allows the audience to visualize color in a three dimensional dialect, as well as to consider how the surface of a plane and the edge and interior of a canvas can all create an important avenue for discovering and uncovering.

California born pop artist, Chris Hobé also known as ArtRevolts creates a box for the world to think outside of. Hobés’ uses vibrant color combinations, eclectic and popular culture references to make his pieces. Hobés’ multi-panel, geometric compositions combine different layers of iconic and nostalgic imagery from comic books, music, logos, and pop patterns.

Kevin Palme paints abstracted fragments of memories and feelings with a reverence for impermanence and jewel-like hues. His paintings resemble a distant landscape, just out of focus and out of reach. The artworks take their titles from haiku poems and intended to read in a similar way, concise and fluid, open to each viewer's personal interpretation.

Artist Talk   Thursday, August 17 | 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Collectors Night   Thursday, August 24 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Volume III: Closing   Thursday, September 7 | 7:00 - 9:00 pm

RESONANCE

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RESONANCE June 9th - July 21st | Kai Lin Art announces its fourth exhibition of 2017 featuring new bodies of work of four artists: Todd Anderson, Greg Noblin, Erik Waterkotte and Andrew Catanese. RESONANCE draws together landscapes, tableaux, photo montage, and experimental printmaking. 

Master printmaker Todd Anderson’s practice involves long-term, team-based projects that investigate ecological changes to wilderness caused by global warming. He works in the ancient tradition of woodblock printing using as many as 15 colors in a single print. Anderson is committed to preserving the romantic beauty of the natural world but at the same time drawing attention to the dire and uncertain futures of these landscapes. Anderson returns to the gallery with a new series of works featuring the stunning vistas and unmatched beauty of Rocky Mountain National Park.

Long time artist of the gallery, Greg Noblin returns with a fresh series of his signature Panelist works. Noblin works to incorporate layers of meaning, symbolism and texture in his artworks through a multistep process of photo-collage and panel printing. The final works are a combination of surrealism, photography and landscape supported by organic and inorganic structures. Sometimes humorous or fantastic, these allegorical illustrations serve as a bridge between the childhood imagination and adult “reality”. 

Erik Waterkotte creates work that centers on concepts of belief, ritual, and space while mixing various experimental printmaking techniques and layering graphics based on his family history, Catholic-upbringing, and fascination with early-American occult. Waterkotte places the viewer into an introspective plane where they can reconcile the real and the unreal in their own faiths. This will be Waterkotte’s first exhibition with Kai Lin Art; he has previously been a part of the group exhibitions FRESH and The New South.

Kai Lin Art welcomes new artist Andrew Catanese with a new series of unique and striking paintings. His figurative, narrative artworks are characterized by a neo-gothic style and horror vacui aesthetic. The work stems from the complex relationship that develops between “outsiders” in the South and the conservatism they disrupt. The dense, tapestry-like images are populated with figures in disguise, caught in moments of violence and intimacy, and surrounded by the thick, heavy native foliage of the South. The paintings depict the South in the echoes of figures and stories at its fringes.

THE NEW SOUTH II

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The New South II April 21 - June 2, 2017 | Kai Lin Art is proud to host our second annual juried exhibition of works on paper, The New South II. The show explores the contemporary South through the perspectives of 39 artists living and working throughout the Southeast. From over 850 submitted artworks, 52 pieces were selected for the exhibition. 

Overseeing the selection process this year are Executive Director of Atlanta Contemporary, Veronica Kessenich and Director of the Welch School of Art & Design of Georgia State University, Michael White.

Veronica Kessenich, an Atlanta native, has been working in the arts for over thirteen years, and was hired as Executive Director of Atlanta Contemporary in July 2015 after serving for two years as the organization’s Development Director. As Director of the Welch School of Art & Design of Georgia State University, Michael White has overseen the growth of the program to nearly 1,000 majors across ten disciplines and five different undergraduate and graduate degrees. With over 50,000 students, Georgia State is the largest university in the state.

The New South II Artists: 

NICK ADAMS, LEE ARNETT, JAMAAL BARBER, BUZZ BUSBEE, DIMELZA BROCHE, JOE CAMOOSA, KARA CARTER, JOSHUA CHAMBERS, KATELYN CHAPMAN, VALENTINA CUSTER O'ROARK, ANDREW DECAEN, ELYSE DEFOOR, DIANE DAVIS, JOE DREHER, WILL ESKRIDGE, DAVID GABBARD, CANAAN GRIFFIN, ROXANE HOLLOSI, GREG HOWSER, ALEA HURST, JAIME JOHNSON, AXELLE KIEFFER, IVY KILPATRICK, DIEGO LASANSKY, JESSICA LOCKLAR, MIA MERLIN, ANDREW MUÑOZ, LYNX NGUYEN, RAOUL PACHECO, STEPHEN PAYNE, STEPHEN PHILMS, KEITH ROSEMOND, ANNA SCARBROUGH, AMBER SINGLETON, SPENCER SLOAN, FREDA SUE, CHARLIE WATTS, ALEX WILLIAMS, NIKI ZARRABI

artwork from the exhibition

ATLANTA PRINT BIENNIAL

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March 17th, 2017 - April 14th, 2017 | ATLANTA PRINT BIENNIAL:  Kai Lin Art is pleased to be hosting the 2017 Atlanta Print Biennial this March 17th - April 14th. Organized by the Atlanta Printmakers Studio, the Atlanta Print Biennial is an international juried exhibition of hand pulled prints and works on paper produced by renowned artists from around the world. This years juror is the 2017 SGC International Printmaker Emeritus Awardee Sydney Cross. In conjunction with the Atlanta Print Biennial, The Southern Graphics Council International will be honoring master printmaker and educator Norman Wagner with the 2017 SGCI Award for Teaching Excellence and a solo exhibition in Kai Lin Art’s Grey Gallery. Started in 2011, this is the fourth Biennial for the Atlanta Printmakers Studio and the second at Kai Lin Art. Atlanta Printmakers Studio will be holding a private opening Thursday, March 16th for SGCI and APS Members. Kai Lin Art will be holding the public opening Friday, March 17th from 7:00 - 10:00pm.

This years Atlanta Print Biennial will feature more than 80 hand printed, editioned works on paper from printmakers around the world. Coinciding with the the Atlanta Print Biennial, the SGC International conference will be held in Atlanta from March 15 -18. The Southern Graphics Council International is the same distinguished organization of which the Biennial’s Juror, Sydney A. Cross, held the office of vice president and then President from 1996-2000. Cross, received her Bachelor of Fine Arts: Northern Arizona University in 1977 and her Masters of Fine Arts: Arizona State University in 1980. She taught printmaking and art for 33 years. In 2015, she retired from teaching at Clemson University where she was awarded the title of Distinguished Alumni Professor of Art.

Norman Wagner is the 2017 recipient of the Award for Teaching Excellence. In addition to sharing work representing his past, Wagner will be showing a series of collagraph-monoprint assemblages. “Some of these artworks utilize oil based intaglio process color inks, while the most recent artworks utilize the water-soluble, soy-based Akua intaglio inks, which for me inform a new printing experience—resulting in significantly different color enhancement.” Norman considers his art to be experimental in nature, intuitive and introspective, yet not adhering to any particular mode of expression. Wagner studied printmaking and design at the Institute of Design in Chicago where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Visual Design in 1961 and a Master of Science Degree of Visual Design in 1968. Wagner has taught courses in drawing, etching, relief printmaking, lithography, serigraphy, papermaking, book arts and interdisciplinary collaboration and has coordinated numerous printmaking workshops at the Atlanta College of Art. Norman has exhibited his work regionally, nationally and internationally.

Hatched

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January 27, 2017 - March 11, 2017 | HATCHED: KAI LIN ART is pleased to present HATCHED featuring artists Thomas Turner and Carly Drew. HATCHED features Thomas Turner’s surreal and symbolic acrylic paintings on wood panel as well as Carly Drew’s layered watercolor landscapes of southern Appalachia. Both artists explore themes of interconnectedness and the passage of time, each from their own personal points of view.

Thomas Turner takes inspiration from Chinese folklore, Greek mythology, Buddhism and Quantum theories to illustrate poetic explorations of universal human origin and connectedness. Turner plays with classical and traditional symbols in a contemporary palette and style where the viewer is witness to our existence and conception personified through birds, landscapes and celestial bodies. Turner has previously been a part of numerous group exhibitions in Atlanta including Kai Lin Art’s “The New South” and “Fresh”. This is Turner’s first solo exhibition.

Carly Drew examines our ever changing relationships to place through layers of personal history, industrial changes to the terrain and the rich American landscape painting traditions. Drawing parallels these layers by holding evidence of decisions made during the working process while showing changes in the work that have taken place over time. This direct connection of media and concept, Drew works to layer past, present, and unseen aspects of a location. By weaving each of these threads into a single image, the result becomes a small narrative compression of the history, ideas, and personal connections to the land.

Boundless

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December 9, 2016 – January 20, 2017 | BOUNDLESS: KAI LIN ART proudly presents BOUNDLESS: Todd Monaghan, Larry Jens Anderson, and Elliston Roshi. BOUNDLESS, featuring new works from TODD MONAGHAN, LARRY JENS ANDERSON, and ELISION ROSHI, is an exploration into the human psyche and the human condition through immersive, intuitive, unconventional painting.

Our gallery is excited to welcome New York based spiritual surrealist, TODD MONAGHAN into our stable of artists. In this solo exhibition of works on canvas, Monaghan applies paint by flicking, spilling, and dripping into a textural, immersive, multi-level artworks. Monaghan’s painting engages formally with line and density on a large scale and thematically stare into the widest scope of all: our boundless universe. Stretching as large as 118 inches, these paintings relate to the individual and whole of the cosmos in their gripping, expressionistic approach. Monaghan has exhibited in New York, Atlanta, Miami and various galleries across the United States and abroad and his works have been collected by academic, corporate and private collections worldwide.

LARRY JENS ANDERSON is a prolific Atlanta based artist with a wide breadth of artwork in many styles and themes including gender, sexual identity, human rights, politics, religion and mortality, often referencing his family history. Anderson, who was born and raised in the small town of Randall, Kansas, has traveled and taught in both France and Italy where much of the inspiration for the pieces in BOUNDLESS comes from. Anderson’s drawings are elegant and beautifully rendered expressions of thought provoking and intensely personal subjects. Across multiple mediums, the viewer escapes into humor to seriousness, through love and meditations on the human condition. Anderson’s works have been exhibited in Hong Kong, Germany, Belgium, Japan, France, Italy, Australia, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and throughout the USA. He is included in many corporate collections as well as the High Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Atlanta, The Mint Museum Charlotte, Wichita Art Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art.

ELLISTON ROSHI practices spontaneity and respect for materials in his process. These artworks manifest as a double layered painting where colorful mixtures of Japanese sumi ink, charcoal, and watercolor on the underside of the framed glass interacts through light and perspective with the complimentary painting beneath the glass. These combinations are one where the sum is greater than the parts. The abstract relationship of each layer to the materials reveal a way of looking at beauty in the world. Roshi is an ordained abbot and guiding teacher at the Atlanta Soto Zen Center and has taught design at University of Illinois SAIC.

Fresh

October 21 – December 3, 2016 | FRESH: Kai Lin Art proudly presents FRESH, a cutting-edge group exhibition featuring 18 artists from the Southeast. In curating the exhibition, Kai Lin Art has assembled a diverse group of artists working in a wide range of techniques and mediums as they explore unique perspectives on community and culture. Art as an universal language is influenced through regional practice and shared histories. Through painting, printmaking, drawing, and mixed media, FRESH is an exhibition that investigates the notions of our place in time in relation to the creative mind in the Contemporary South.

FRESH featuring artists Josh Brown, Rebecca Coll, Nate Dorn, Chris Hobe, Tim Kent, Michael Klapthor, Wen Lin, Carl Linstrum, Michelle Martin, John Morse, Lynx Nguyen, Sam Parker, Sanithna Phansavanh, Chris Skeene, Michael Thrush, Thomas Turner, Erik Waterkotte, and Niki Zarrabi // Opens Friday, October 21st, 2016 7:00 – 10:00pm + runs through December 3rd

LAVISH PIGMENT

September 9 – October 15, 2016: LAVISH PIGMENT is a four artist exhibition featuring Daniel Byrd, Tim Kent, Ashley L. Schick, and Donald Robson.

Daniel Byrd: In his inaugural exhibition, Daniel Byrd explores his passion for abstract expressionism and graffiti. Using large brushes, Byrd creates distinctive images that are wide and thin, loud and quiet, thick or transparent. The intention of this work is to encapsulate a sensation for the viewer to be enveloped by paint. This experience allows our mind to ponder each lavish layer as they dance across the surface of the canvas creating intense moments of color, mark and expression.

Tim Kent: Tim Kent has a deep respect for craftsmanship throughout his creation process. Each piece begins sculpturally through traditional canvas-building techniques to emphasize form and shape. Kent’s work allows the audience to visualize the environment as well as to consider how the surface of each plane, the edge and the interior of the canvas can all create an important avenue for discovery and uncovering. The volumes of canvas and its surrounding space are used as chiseling tools giving the viewer an understanding of the relationship between line, shadow, color, and form.

Ashley L. Schick: Field Studies is the result of a 10 year studio practice of thinking in colors and layers. Patterns, textures and organic forms inspire Ashley L. Schick with each hand-cut, hand-assembled composition. Each piece is a study of place, time, and experience as if the viewer is walking through a forest. The path might be the same, but light, wildlife, weather, season, and inner monologues are different each time. These works explore world building, speculation, and immersion as vibrant descriptions of the mental interior. The imaginary worlds with fragments of nature and culture, monuments and experience, islands and explosions are made new and take on hybrid and ambiguous forms allowing stories to seep out for the viewers’ own interpretation.

Donald Robson: In this exhibition of works on paper, Don Robson explores his fascination with interconnectedness. The thread that connects history with painting, music with theater, the high and the low brow. Symbolism, analogy, and metaphor are key themes throughout his work and narrative story telling never seems too far away. Through carefully curated lines and color, Robson finds himself rewriting and combining familiar visual cues of folktale, human achievement, and recognized stories.

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